Simulation for Policy Inquiry

by Desai, Anand

• ISBN13: 9781461416647
• ISBN10: 1461416647
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-05-23
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

This book contains contributions on the use of various types of simulation in public policy and management research. Simulation techniques represented in this volume include system dynamics, agent based models and Monte Carlo simulation. The purpose of this volume is to (1) discuss the use of simulation as a tool for gaining understanding and helping inform policy decisions, (2) illustrate how the use of simulation enhances understanding and informs decisions, and (3) use different levels of detail and different types of simulation tools to achieve (1) and (2) through examples that are readily accessible to those who are simply exploring the uses of simulation and also offer sufficient substantive and technical detail to be of interest to established users of simulations. This volume will provide both a conceptual rationale for the use of simulations for policy inquiry and a practical introduction to how simulations might be constructed and implemented to inform public policy. This book will be of interest to advanced graduate students, scholars working in applied social and policy sciences as well as non-academic policy researchers and practitioners.